captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, a clearer timeline. new reporting reveals the extent of rudy giuliani's business in ukraine and more confirmation that president trump knew of a government whistleblower's complaint before releasing a milita. then, injured on the job at amazon and hden from view. e human cost of convenience at one of the world's largest companies. plus, waste not. shocking amounts of od never make it to the table, and head straight for the landfill. but states like california are working to change that cycle. >> there is definitely enough food in los angeles and in the local food system so that we are able to ed everyone in

southern california, the issue is not with the food being d available it'stribution problem. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> maj funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: s >>porting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems--ou skolation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention,d n the u.s. andeveloping countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >>supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation.

committed tojuuilding a more , verdant and peaceful world. more informati at macfound.org nd >> aith the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a major storm dumped heavy snow across the midwest today, fouling travel o the fore thanksgiving. as much as a foot fell in some, pllaying flights at chicago's o'hare airport, one of the nation's busiest. a separate system slammed oregon and high wind, andh rain, snow transportation officialsp scrambled to kads clear. >> we ran into some fog a little earlier, where reduce of visibility substantially. snow's coming down and it's sticking. caltrans is out in full force. they're sanding and they're

sticking. they're plowing. they laid a brine solution down last night. we are going to try to keeit we are. that's our goal to keep it open and keep it safe. u woodruflity crews in california and oregon also worked today to restore power to thousands. explosions and fire at a chemical plant in texas have forced thousands of people from their homes tonight. c.e first blast hit the t. plant at port neches, 80 miles east ohouston before dawn. a second expsion erupted this afternoon. it sent new fires racing through the site, and new clouds of smoke high overhead. there were no deaths, but some 60,000 people were order to evacuate, from within four miles of the plant. president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, is facing new questions about financial dealings in ukraine, amid the impeachment inquiry. he new york times" and "the washington post" report giuliani pursued contracts with ukrnian officials, as he was pushing ths to investigate mr. trum

political rivals. we'll take a closer look, after the news summary. security forces in iraq have killed six more protesters and wounded 35 amid new unrest over corruption and economi distress. in baghdad, crowds threw rocks over a barricade today, braving live fire and tear gas. some of the security officers were even spotted dancing, amid the debris. later, protesters burned the iranian consulate in najaf, in a show of opposition to iran's influence in iraqi affairs. officials in iran now say protests over gas lastt in week, and 7,000 were arrested in a crackdown. also tod, the government ported nearly 900 banks, gas buildings and official buildings were bned out during rioting. supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei told a lly that it was all fomented by the united

states. >> ( translated ): it was a deep, extensive and very dangerous conspiracy that cost the u.s. so much monnd effort. they thought thathey had found the opportunity and brought their troops to the field. this move was destroyehe people. >> woodruff: amnesty international says more th 140 protesters were killed in the crackdown.ep iran has notted any number of its own.en vi surged overnight in lebanon, and dozens of people were hurt. riot troops were called out in tripoli as supporters and opponents of the country's president fought each other. the clashes left buildings damaged and fires burning. protests against the country's political elite began in mid- october. and, in colombia, several thousand demonstrators marched in bogota again today, over economic conditions and a variety of other causes. the peaceful gathering camear afte a week of sometimes olent protests.

four people have been killed,ll and ns of dollars in business have been lost. back in this countrywhite house says it will defend makine visas cont on proof of health insurance. a federal judge temporarily blocked the policy on tuesday.it opponents arguould bar nearly two-thirds of all prospective lel immigrants. meanwhile, immigration agents have arrested some 2eign students who enrolled in a fak university outside detroit, so they could stay in the u.s. it was part of a sting operation. massachusetts today became the b first state flavored tobacco and e-cigarette products. most of its provisionsake effect immediately. republican governor charlie baker signed the bill at a ceremony in boston. and, he urged more action om the federal government. >> a national policy wh respect to this stuff obously can be far more effective than dointhis one state at a time

but i cannot understand why anybody would think, given all the data and all the evidence and all the information that's out there at this po time, that the right thing for us to do would be nothing. >> woodruff: president trump has proposed banning most flavors of e-cigarettes nationwide, but has not yet taken any concrete action. at least six companies that make or distribute prescription opioid painkillers are facing an federal cr investigation. fohe wall street journal" and others report ths is their role in the epidemic of opio addiction and overdoses. the drugmakers include amneal, mallinckrodt and teva, along with distributors amerisource-es bergen and mn. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gainedo 42 points to at 28,164. the nasdaqose 57 points, and the s&p 500 added 13.

former president jimmy carter was released from a hospital in atlanta today, to head home for thanksgiving. he had surgery two weeks ago t relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding from a recent fall. mr. carter is 95 years old. and, former deputy attorney general william ruckelshaus has died. he gained fame in 1973 when he refused to fire the watergate special prosecutor, as predent nixon had ordered, and resigned instead. he was also the first head of the environmental protection auency. william ruckelshwas 87 years old. still to come on the newshour: the white house's pressure on ukraine grows clearer and we check in to see how impeachment is resonating around the country.os hidden of two-day shipping. the dangerous conditions facedre by amazon's wause workers. reversing mammoth amounts of food waste in southern california, and much more.

>> woodruff: another day, another new handful of revelations, filling in the story of how president trump, his associates, and his administration have been interacting with ukraine. what was president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, doing in that eastern european country? what did the president know about the whistleblower complain and when did he know it? here with me to walk through yet another day of developments is our own yamiche alcindor. ch to follow, as always. so we did learn more today about rudy giuliani'sinvolvement, alings in ukraine. what are we learning? often say you need to follow the

money and in this case both "the wawington post" and the " york times" say they followed rudy giuliani's money to show that he was trying to really negotiate a lucrative consulting deal with the government of ukraine while he was, at the same tiinme, urgthe top prosecutor there to look into joe biden and hunter biden so what we know is that through wasments, rudy giulia negotiating up to at least $200,000 to be paid by the wukrainian government to rk that would have essentially been him looking into whether or not ukraine had stolen money that somehow ended up overseas. rudy giuliani said he looke at this deal, but he said this was a conflict of interest, i thought it would look baand i never made a penny off of this. why this is importan is we see rudy giuliani pressuring or making uainian officials look into this claim joe biden might have been a corrupt person operating in their country at the same time ehe's actually trying to benefit financially

from that. so this is a big deal andg somethople will continue to look into. questions again, yamiche, about the relationship between rudy giuliani and the president. what's hapning in their relationship? >> this could be breaking the law if rudy giuliani was operating in this way in ukraine, he could look into not herend th breaking thegn agent law because he would be seeking to influenc utheted states government on behalf of a foreign country. the other thing we note i president trump was answering questions about this about whether or not he told rudy giuliani to do anthing in ukraine, and here's what he told billow riley, the former fox news host. >> well, you have to ask that to rudy, but rudy, i don't know even know -- i know he was going to go to ukraine, and i think he canceled the trip, but, you know, rudy has other clients other than me. but he is a -- he is a warrior. rudy is a warrior.

rudy went, he possibly -- but you have to understand, rudy has other people he rresents. >> no, i know it. some people see this the prident trying to put distance between himself and his attorney rudy giuliani. but other officials say president trump leuled on rudy ni to pressure ukraine for the money. rudy giuliani said he had insurance on president trump in case he tried to throw him under the bus, but he as i understood saints said 's being sarcastic. he since said he called rudy giuliani to reassure him he was not trying to say anything to p.upset their relationshi i want to read a quote from rudy giuliani because he wants to make sure he defends the president and is in his good graces. he tweeted reality check, democrats issued more subpoenas than they have bills to be passed. t 's not abering americans but remaining in their seats in how per. that's rudy giuliani reflecting

his complaints about this. >> woodruff: so much to follow. there was reporting about when the government whistleblower's complaint. >> woodruff: we knew white house officials were asking $390 million to be released to ukraine. thident was briefed on the whistleblower's complained plaint two weeks before that military aid was released. why this is importanis because the president told the e.u. bassador gordon sondland that he didn't want quid pro quo when they were taking before thewa mone released. this timeline shows the president said this after he a knew there w whistleblower complaint that was talking specifically about a quid pro quo. the other thing notice is that the white house had this defense that everything was okay use ukraine got the money and the president of ukraine and the united states eventually met. what we kn iow nothat again

kns released because the presiden about the whistleblower complaint. the other thing they know is the whe house meeting never actually happened. the two presidents met at the united nations but the president of ukraine has yet toever come to the white house and get a diplomatic and welcoming at the white house. that is much different than a sideline meeting. >> woodruff: covetedin tation. >> yes. >> woodruff: thank you,e. yami >> woodruff: here in the nation's capital, pretty muchnt all the atn is on impeachment. but how is it being received in other parts of the country? we tur reporters to find out: blitie switalski is with wlrn, south florida's radio station. maryahammer of twin cities p in minneapolis. and bente birkeland of colado public radio. bente joins us from minneapolis as well, where she is for the holidays. it's great to have you with us

on the "newshour". bente, i'm going to start with u. i know your home is colorado and that's what i want to talk about. when you talk to colorado voters about what's going on with impeachment, what do they say? how much attention are thy paying? are they interested in it? >> when we talked to voters across the poitical spectrum, i was surprised how engaged people are and how much they're payingt atn. a lot of people said they were going to watch the public hearings live, other people were planning to follow it closely, and people had a lot of opinionl bu understood the nuance and were very, very closely paying attention. >> and, mary lahammer, what about you? i mean, youbeat ismo minnesota, the twin cities, are people following these hearings? >> absolutely. incredibly engaged in politics. we lead the nation in voter turnout and we' politically divided. we have one if not the onlydi ded legislature in the nation.

and we're divided on impeachmenls the latest pshow not a majority for or against it. so minnesotans tend to run indepetrent. presidenp was a percentage and a half point away from winning mnnesota. he visited last month. he wants to be in contention. the polls are swing 10 points down on the presidential race. >> woodruff: so caitie switali, president trump came to south florida last night for a political rally. you were there. you went to the rally, and before i turn to you, i want to play for viewers just a bit of what the presidt had to say about the democratsho are running this impeachment process. >> they're pushing that impeachment witch hunt, and a lot of bad things are happening to them, because you see what's happening in the polls? everybody id, that's really bu (bleep

(cheering) >> woodruff: so, caitie, they appeared not to thinkuchd. of the impeachment process, but >> i think one of the? interesting parts is the trump supporrs that are rile -- really worried about impeachment are wored that their vote could be suppressed or taken away frothe 2016 election, which is -- which is an interesting perspective i hadn't heard before. by and large peoe are aligning on impeachment like the stormy daniels or the mueller report. they're thinking this is something new that will blow over soon. staying with you, caitie? what about voters you talked to you have been interviewing voters over a number of days. what is erybody else telling you? >> well, so, w there a huge

group, 20,000 trump supporters in broward county which is a very, very blue democratic rally. so south floridians are worriedu things but they are engaged in the impeachment process. if they're notatching it live, they have been seriously following news recaps at the end of the day to make sure they know the gist. they've had a lot of people telling me they arar therel reln recaps.>> woodruff: bente birke, do you have folks have their minds made up or arehey still open minded and waiting for information? what do they say about that? >> definitely a little of both. supporters that feel this is a waste of time and people have be trying to get president trump out of office since the day he was elected. some docrats know how they feel and think there is enough evidence for impeachment. but i'm surised about how many people are in the middle waiting

to iet morenformation. i talked to a conservative woman who voted third party in the last election and said how lawmakers conduct themselves in this phase will impact her vote. especially down ticket. we have a very competitive u.s. senate race. repuican cory gardner is facing a tough challenge and she said that could impact how she votes in the senate race if it moves that way. not everyone is set in their opinions and we found that with unaffiliated voters as well. >> woodruff: mary lahammer, what about the twin cities, on this or still looking forne information? >> you know, i think they are looking for information. our latest poll survey u.s.a. and kstp came out with 45% of minnesotans saying there was enough to convict and 40% are not. 15% are undecided. one indendent voters said he is still watching eveinry

closely, watching as much of the hearings as possible to make up his mind. 's saying he stayed open minded, really wants to hear. then hi cecked in with another e a lotdent voter, we hav of them. that independent voter said they want to move on with issue they are an issue oriented policy mere. the healthcare, we have the largt employer in the state of minnesota, a lot of fortune 500 companies. we care about business and healthcare. sounds like some have started to reach a fatigue point on it. >> caitie switalski, back to you in south florida. what about this question of t acro board, voters still open to new information, new facts, or pretty much set in their views? >> i would say the voters i have spoken with are set in their views one way or theer oth i think especially with the democrats keeping up with the impeachment hearings, a couple of voters told me now ewe know

there is evidence and see their evidence versus republicans, a lot of times replican supporters are convinced there is not evidence. what they want to see coming from the impeachment proceedings. so they' still paying attention. though they're not necessarily coming across asop minded. >> woodruff: i want o come back to the question are people believing what they see and what they mary? do they think if process is being conducted in a fav way, that it's on the level? >> i think that one was a little bit more partisan. i think republicans feel like the whole question n and of itself was done in a partisan way and it shouldn't even be happening. and i think democrats and the mo unaffiliated voters said, in information has come to light and weeed to get to the bottom of this. mary said there is a sense tha

republicans are worn out and weir wehrey and a lot of folks, it's hard to get them to talk about the topic.ng people are trto keep their opinions to themselves because they know how volatile and divergent people's opinions are. people are interested but they also want to move on. >> woodruff: mary lahammer, minnesota, do you find people believe what they're watching? they think this is a fair process? >> i thi it really depends o where you come from. i think democrats think it's fair and i think republicans don't. i've noticed looking at my email inbox, fr members of congress, because we have a really interesting delegation, we have a majority, five of the eight members of conscious are knew.e theyll quiet. i don't think members of congress want to be talking about it much. we have an ad, collin petersen is a democrat who won in the biggest trump districts so he has a really tough challenger in

a battle with former lieutenant governor michelle fish bach running against him and t are ads trying to drum on colin petersen about this and he is only one of two democrats who voted against the initial impeachment proceedings, so wear incredibly divided and the five new members of congress are under pressure on this issue. >> woodruff: when you add it feeling that we're going to get to the bottom of this in some way or they just are writing this? >> they had a couple of voters tell me, look, impeachment is going to happen one way or the other potentially. we don't knoabout removal but it doesn't matter because what's next isehe elction. democrats are trying to look forward, figure out how to get the vote, mobilize and organize after the election. keep moving toward the election. >> woodruff: sinteresting to get the views around the country.

caitie switalski, broward county, florida, wln radio. wenbente birkeland with colorado public radio and mary lahammer,c twies pbs, thank you very much. >> thank you, judy. s, judy. . >> woodruff: black friday, twowa days kicks off peak shopping season for amazon. this year, the company is offering to deliver some packages to its prime members in one day. and in fact, the retail giant announced it will hire 200,000 people for the holiday shopping season, double ter number of woit hired a year ago. but many amazon staffers say the demand for greater speed is the workers.factor harming warehouse like many other companies, amazon does not ke its injury rates public. but will evans of reveal from

the center for investigativele reporting was o compile injury records from amazon work sites across the country for the first time and has somsobering findings. >> reporter: it's the begiing of peak shopping season at amazon. in a company video, this is how one manager revs up his worker >> ready, one, two, three... >> reporter: amazon is gearing up for a huge spike in shipping. last year, the online retailer says it sold 180 million items in the five days from thanksgiving to cyber monday. the company boasts of the speed which is the cornerstone of its business model. >> have you ever wondered how amazon gets you your package so quickly? the slam machine weighs, scans your box and attaches a labelin alike one second. eporter: candice dixon h experienced this push for speed first-hand, working at an amazon fulfillment warehous southern california. >> i've worked physical jobs

and, you know, it seemed okay at the very beginning. >> reporter: dixon worked as a" stower," loading hundreds ofuc pr into storage bins, with a computer tracking her pace per package down to the second. >> it should take 11 seconds or less. if you can. but 11 seconds was the goal. >> reporter: is that hard to meet? yeah. >> reporter: if staffers don'tir meet tuotathey can get written up and fired. dixon had to hit her rate no matterhat package came her way. >> i had a whole shift of all heavy items. that's what happened. i got injured. i pulled my back out. >> reporter: her doctor told her to limit heavy liftingbut she says amazon sent her back to work, still dealing with heavy boxes, and her injury got worse. she's now out of work. she received a worker's comp settlement, but that money is running out. >> doing dishes hurts, preparing my food hurts, and so i don't even know how i'going to survive financially. oing to have a home in a

couple months if i don't have an income? so i don't know what to do. >> reporter: amazon refused to let us film inside any of it warehouses, but in online videos the nation's second largest private employer touts its culture of safety. >> safety is always the number one priority. we are the most safety centric organization in the world. >> reporter: anozon, which is unionized, closely guards records of serious injuries like dixon's. but federal regulations say the company must provide workers withhe injury logs from thei worksites. so, withhe help of amazon employees around the country, we were able to obtain offidsal injury recrom 23 warehouses across 14 states, representing about 2 of amazon's fulfillment centers. at these warehses, we found that last year workers got seriously injured at more than double t industry average. even six times thaage.'sour or

serious injuries are those for which workers need to ta timeri off or be reed from certain tasks. amazon declined to be interviewed, but in an email stated the rates are high because it diligently reports injuries, saying: "amazon encourages the reporting of every incident... regardless of how small." it also said that rates of lost work time are high because amazon takes "an abundance of back at work before they areyees ready." we showed our findings to a former amazon safety manager who asked us to hide his identity. he said last year's injury rates at dixon's warehouse were much higher than they should be. >> that's a significant amount of injuries. that should not be happening. >> reporter: overall, the injuries we found ranged from lacerations to concussions. most were labeled "strains and abrains." t a third of the injured workers had to take off more m thanth to recover.

>> we've looked at how we can get packages to the customer in a day. we can get packages to theow hurting people.ay without >> reporter: he says the high injury rates are linked to the extreme production quotas that amazon workers must hit every shift. are they just going too fast? >> i think that's where it lands. it doesn't afford for what the toll on the body is. people might be making those numbers, but what are they sacrificing to make thatumber? >> reporter: christina van vorce work at the same warehouse a dixon. >> this is the million unit club. >> reporter: this shows yoush ped out a million units in one day? >> yes. >> reporter: she saw the overwhelming pressure to get packages out the door as fast as possible, especially during peak shopping season. >> it's intense. it's ver very intense. think of santa's workshop.im from the te you punch in to the time you punch out, you're like, going a million miles a minute.

>> reporter: in early january, van vorce was working the nightf when she and her co- workers smelled gas. her manager told her to keep b workin she felt she had to call 911. >> i'm calling from azon building i'm one of the associates here gas leak here.that there is a there was twassociates that i know for sure that were miting. one girl almost completely pass out. >> reporter: she says management wouldn't stop operations for fear of not meeting their quotas. >> i already said something to them several times, like, everyone's sick d you're not letting people go, like they're trying to tell us, ¡you have to use our personal time if we want to leave.' they're worried about getting fired or losing their hours or losing their pay. and at's not something that they should be worried about when there's a gas leak. you should be worried about your life. >> reporter: workers who left their shift at day were docked for personal time, though amazon eventually reversed that after workers complained. >> when they sit there and say that, all they care about is the

safety of their employees. well, obviously not, because if theyared about the safety-- if safety was first, then everybody would have been evacuated from that building and they weren't. >> reporter: in its statement, amazon refuted this, saying:" within minutes of being alerted to the smell of gas, allth associates iimmediately affected area were removed. the site shut down for about one and a half hours... associates are to remain onsite so we can resume operations once the situation is resolved." but van vorce and three others workers toldere was no site-wide shut down. i amazon says doing what it can to make warehouses safer for workers, like by adding morero bots to the warehouse floors. >> we're constantly st to be a leader. there's many things that we've changed in our operation through the use of technology to speedd things up anso made it safer for our associates. >> reporter: but in fact, we found that in r data, many of the highest injury rates were

from warehouses withobots. the former amazon safety manager saw this first-hand. >> if you go to the amazon robotic sortable buildings, you're basically going into the lion's den. there's more automation. there's more places for me to interact with a process wheri can get hurt. >> reporter: and it's faster? >> it is. it's faster. the pace ith building is blistering. >> reporter: he says robots increase the pace to the point where humans just can't keep up. have the robots pued humans past their lims? >> i think you're seeing that h nexus where maans are tapping out. >> reporter: he hopes that amazon workers will not pay thev price fo speedier deliveries this holiday shopping season. you know, when you order something from amazon and you've worked inside amazon, you wonder like, "hey is it going to cause some sort of significant injury or illness or something like that?"

if i order one-click ship, what's the effect that it's going toave on somebody's life? >> reporter: this is will evans for revealnd pbs newshour in eastvale, california. >> woodruff: on friday, in the second of our series, will investigates a death at anll amazon fulnt warehouse that raises questions about how government officials dl with potential safety violations at the global compa. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: the threat of rising water-- an entire village in alaska moves. for many of us, the thanksgiving meal is one of the most beloved culinary traditions of the year. but thateast usually ends with plentiful leftovers and then some. that extra "some," so to speak,

often ends up in the garbage and adds to the much larger problem of food waste in this country. that makes it a good time to look at the burgeoning movement to rethink our attitudes and approach about all of special correspondent allison aubrey of npr showed us the depth of the problem in previous reports, and she's back for a t special seris week. allison, welcome.s the numbe staggering. 30 to 40% of all the food we produce never even makes it to our tables? >> yes, it's unbelievable to think about. and when researchers first documented the scope of problem four years back, that's all people could say: wow. huge. now, there's a lot happening to solve the problem. efforts all over the country.

they are taking away streams of food that can't be eaten and turning it into electricity, into renewable energy. now we start the seriein california because the state is th durkin around the state and here's what we found. when we first >> reporter: when we first came to the salinas valley four yea ago, we saw walls of leafy greens being tossed away. and it's still happening. on peak days up to 200 tons of produce is headed to this dump; it's all surplus; from nearby farms and packaging facilities. it ends up here for a bunch of reasons: it's either too small, but, it was these plastic bags that really frustrated, cesar zuniga. he's the facility's waste manager. sad to receive all this material and not put it to better use. the plastic makes it hard to compost. you shred the plastic with the organics, it contaminates the compost. >> reporter:ll this used to be tossed in a landfill, where it would rot and emit methane, a greenhouse gas, but cesar zuniga

says there's a new solution. look at all that food waste!la lettuce inic bags! >> yes it's all film plastic. it's the same stuff we saw four years o. now we have this machine, the debagger and it separates out the plastic from the lettuce. >> reporter: all that bagged lettuce goes in here.. >> as you can see, it's being separated. the plastic and the debris is coming out here. and, you'lsee the organic materials coming out on this side into this container. >> reporter: wow! it's like a slurry. >> we call it a salsa. >> reporter: ah, so a lsa of wasted lettuce. so here is where you take that liquid slurry and turn it into something more valuable, huh? correct. after we debag the material and get the slurry out of it we mix it with the material that's behind us and compost it. >> reporter: so your turning into compost and then selling im back to s. >> yes, selling it back to farmers and they put it on the ricultural lands and they grow more produce for us.

>> reporter: so it's a real and, composting can reduce or prevent the release of methane,s hese greens break down. this is beneficial because methane is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas em climate change.tor in in addition to composting, recovering edible fo before it makes it to a landfill is another effective way to preve food waste. in the coming year, california wi roll out new regulation that require food businesses, like gcery stores and wholesale distributors to donate their edible food waste by 2022f hey don't comply businesses could be fined. >> right now the easieng to do is to just throw whatever food you have out. the new law, it's forcing people to take that extra effort, and that exercise in itself, helps surplus their creahe amount of >> reporter: that's dana gunders, who helped put the

issue of food waste the map back in 2012, with a report that documented just how much goes to waste. the state of california is also expanding grants to non-profits to recover all of this surplus food that may have jusgone to waste, in order to feed hungry people. >> millions of pounds of pruce.or >> rr: one group leading the way is food forward, run by rich nahmias. collecting food donations is nothing new. but what you see here taking it to a whole new, level >> it's the quantity tt's kind of amazing. we've got melons kale a termelon, kale, corn in the back, it's like permarket >> reporter: thanks to a $500,000 grant from the state, nahmais bought this warehouse equipped with a refrigerator that can hold up to 150,000f poundsproduce. alof this will double the

amount of food he can recover. >> people just don't understand the level of over production there is no one in let fruit and veggie land control tower figuring out exactly where the stuff should be going and coming from, so the result is waste. ha>> reporter: he's out toe tis. food forward's developed a sophisticated, system to match the wholesalers who have surplus produce to give away with peop in need. and this year they'll distribute food to 1800 hunger relief agencies in southern california. a lot of the surplus comes from farms, farmers markets and right here: the l.a. wholele food market. we woke up at 5:00 a.m. to check out the scene. do you have any deals yet? >> yes, right now we just got offered eight palates of peaches, 14,000 pounds. >> reporter: wow, that's a lot. luis yepiz is part of the food forward's operation team and his job is to nag vendors who're

getting ready to toss stuff outy :00 a.m. yepiz has recovered close to 80,000 pounds of produce. so why would any of these vendors be offering you donations, what's wrong with this produce? >> a lot of the produce that gets donated gets donated because there are minor imperfecepons. >> rter: and that's not the only rson. >> they told me it was this pallet right here, this palate, this one and this one. >> reporter: all going to waste? and they have a nement of yet peaches coming in so thewant to get rid of them before they have to throw them away. the issue with this particular box of peaches is that there is some decay. >> reporter: but some of them are good so you don't want to throw away the whole box. >> unfortunaly, this particular company is short on refrigerated spa. they want to donate them. >> reporter: by 10:00 a.m. these peaches and all the other produce are loaded onto this truck, and first stop: resurrection church in east los angeles.

families are lined up waiting. back at the wholesale maet i asked yepez if he's worried about not having enough food foo ever. >> there is definitely enough food in los angeles and in the local food system so that we are able to feed everyone in southern california, the issue is not with the food being availablit's a distribution problem. >> reporter: getting it to the people in need. >> yes, it's a logistics problem. you got to create the bridges between the abundance and the people in need. >> reporter: a logistics problem that nahmais has a fix for. he's got new software to helpen produce they're moving in and out. >> we're able to track food in sreal time, we're able toeeth where trucks are at, what is on eactruck, where it's coming from, where it's going. and it'sllowed us to scale. >> reporter: and thascale is what's needed. california is not the only state taking action. five states and five cities have restrictions aimed at diverting food waste from land for the pbs newshour, i'm

allison aubrey from npr news in los angeles. >> woodruff: this week has brought another alarming milestone. global greenhouse gas emissions hit a record level again last year. as those heat-trapping gases increase, the earth warms, melting even the thick ice in the arctic that's supposed to remain permanently frozen. as a result, rising seas could people worldwide, ing in aons of small alaskan village. stephanie sy has the story of that village and its efforts to adap it's part of our series on the "leading edge" of science, health a technology. reporter: more than two decades ago, the yupik of newtok, alaskaoted to move to new land. with the earth warming, the permafrost their village sat on was melting, while rising seas

were making the ninglick river rise and erode the riverline and coastline, on average, 70 feet a year.in arly october, the first yupik started moving to their new town, mertarvik, located analong a hillside of a vo island, from where the ninglick meets the ring sea. the new place is close, only nine miles away,ut the journey was long and as relocation coordinator romy cadierde describes,us. >> getting all of the material, equipmt of people, food, everything that's associated with construction, the whole logistics, the whole planning of giis move was really chall for everybody. >> reporter: without a feral policy for relocating people affected by climate change, the yupik sought various funding sources, and theilitary helped build some of the houses. the first prototype house was erected in 2016, and 17 families have now moved in to new abodes.

they are improvements to what they and many other rural alaskans have had, with proper runng water and sewage, replacing the so-called "honey buckets" that made living in newtok less than sanitary. the community collaborated withs ouide groups including the alaska native health consortiumg to dand engineer a village that would continue their culture of subsistence living. off the la cadiente says the fishing is bett near metarkvik. the folks didn't want to get integrated into another village or move because they've been around this area for hundreds of years. they know where to fish ruen the fish iing. they know wherto hunt. when it's that time of the year, livelihood intact er withtence their culture. we wanted to keep that alive for th. >> reporter: the houses are more sustainable, harnessing

renewable energy, and with them, the yupik enter a new future, one that they hope is healthier, and safer. >> it's heartbreakinto see a home you know, that is almost being lost to the river. just scared families that don't know or don't. so... and then you put them. you keep their traditiyou keep their identity. >> reporter: climate refugees, they've been called, but als survivors, andrsn a way, pion the resettlement of the yupik people has drawn in local, state and federal agencies f different fields and is far from over. one of the organizations helping to manage the relocation effort is the alaska native tribal health consortium. tygavin dixon is the commu development manager for that group and joins me now from anchorage. gavin, you were in mertarvik recently.

give us andea of how people are settli in. >> we've got about 18 families moved out there and people are settling into their new homes and, y know, getting used to more space in a new location. and i think people arting to embrace their new home. >> reporter: how long will it take to fully relocate and ysettle the entire commun from newtok? >> it depends a litt on when investment comes for additional housing and infrastructure in mek. but we're forecasting by 2023 ewlocating the entire population of newtok to theite. >> reporter: there are communities around the country and the world, as you know, facing tough questions about whether to stay in flood prone areas or relocate. where do you see that yupik relocation model fitting into the national conversation? >> well, i think newtok is a community that's moving early and doing it in advance of the impacts of erosion. they're not the only community in real alaska. there are many other communes,2 at leasther communities that are likely to face either

partial or full relocation due to the impacts of flooding and erosion. t there's a lot more people in this country and all over the world that face the same threats.it an not easy to move. and it's not just the challenges from a personal level are very serious. the challenges from a technical design and construction level, especially in the arctic and especially in rural alaska, are very complicated. challenges came out of this process of relocation?in that would brmative to other communities facing the same fate? c with climange approaching? >> i think some of the decisions that have been the most challenging are how do you relocate and then and how do you plan for something that happens slowly? a lot of times when a commity faces a disaster, it's a it's an event. it's a tornado. it's hurricane. it's an earthquake. and the effort to rebuild is based on that specific event. but what happens when it's a slow moving disaster like

erosion or persistent flooding? and how you plan for addressing a disaster like that? and so newtok is put a lot of effort into planning on a ng time scale what it's like to relocate the community, how they do it, whas the highest priority. >> reporter: how much did the people the yu'pik people contribute to building this new community? >> an incredible amount, and so for one, more than half the construction crew has been a local workforce out there, and that's been the case for a long the communities alsovery dollar that they can, they can scrounge from every funding source they can imagine, including their own tribally, generated revenues into building more housing for their people >> reporter: and how much time do the folks that are still in newtok have to relocate before their homes disappear into the sea? >> in 2019, seven homes would have gone into the ninglik river if they had not been demolished in advance of the advancing erosion of those homes. those residents hate already reloto the new site, but more homes lie in the way of the erosion that's encroaching at about 60 feet a year.

the folkclosest to the erosion have less time than others. we expect there's aboufour houses that uld be potentially impacted in 2020. we expect that the schoo which is really a central pillar of the community, will be affected as soon as 2021 or 2022. and the airport, which is the community's imary transportation access, would be impacted by 2023. one of the core tenets of e culture in newtok is adaptability. and i think that's a really important, important value. that their community and their culture maintains to deal with a threat like climate change, a changing environment. >> reporter: gavin dixon, the community development manager with the alaska native tribal health consortium. gavin, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: tonight's brief but spectacular features performer adrienne c. moore, an actress

best known for her rol orange is the new black. she opens up here aboutepulling char from her upbringing in atlanta, and the impact herr. father had on this is part of canvas, our culture.ng covering of arts and pe what i love about acting and being in front ole is honestly seeing their expressions. my first production that i can remember was the best christmas pageant ever in nashville, tennessee. i had no lines, just the little but that gave me ae to look at every single pin the audience during the show and seeing them smile, and laugh, and have feelings and emotions. and from tt moment on, i said, "i want to do this for the rest of my life." orange is the neblack came about just like any other audition. they called me in for black cindy.im diately when i read it i said, "oh my gosh, i know this

girl." to me, she represented a lot of girls that i had run across when i'd moved to atlanta, just very fiery and speak their minds, and pop their fingers, and roll their eyes, and roll their heads and so when i read her i said, "i think i could embody her pretty well." of course she ain't smiling, shb got screweme, by-- by everybody. sunnne, everything is broke and life is unfair. whenre you going to learn that? the play that i did in shakespeare in the park was called taming of the. i got to work with phyllida lloyd, who is a phenomenal director, and i was always biraid of shakespeare, iam pentameter, and just going up on a li and all that kind of stuff. but she really taught me how to own e language. and in that ownership, how to own the character. and once i got past thr, i had the most amazing time.

what was so revolutionary about that experience was that i lost my dad literally in the same time tt i was doing that show. and so i was experiencing incredible highs a incredible lows at the same time. but one of the things that m dad taught me and told me before he passed was happiness. and so that's the thing that i always try to embody in my work and in my life and in who i am. i feel like when i in the pocket with something, i'll sometimes hear this little chime or this a little ding somewhere off in the distance, and i feel like it's my dad being like, "you got it. my dad was very proud of me, of his children because one of the things he always said was, "do what makd you happy." lot of times when i get in very confusing places in my lifn and i don' what choice to make, i always think about what he said, which is, "do what makes you happy. and so that's how i make my

decisions. i don't question. i just go inside of myself and i say, "well, what will make me ppy in this moment?" because that's what my dad taught me. my name is adrienne c. moore, and this is my briefut spectacular take on all the characters of my life. >> woodruff: and y can watch additional brief but spectacular episodes on our web site, pbs.org/nehour/brief. tonight the newshour has a special report airing on pbs, "the plastic problem." our newshour reporting teams spent more than a year examining how our global dependence on plastic has created one of the biggest environmental threats to our planet. amna nawaz hosts the program and here's a quick look. >> nawaz: the oceans are swimming in it... rivers are choked with it. coastlines are collecting it. landfills are clogged with it... outhtrash bags are filled wi it...fl and it's eveoating in the

air we breathe.>> magine spreading out nine billion metric tons evenly. we could cover the whole of argentina in plastic or california six times over. >> nawaz: it's plastic: the material we can't seem to liveou wi that also lasts longer than a lifetime. plastic can take hundreds ofak years to bown, and even then only into microparticles. it's hurting animals, it's in our food chain. plastic, is everywhe >> woodruff: "the plastic problem" airs on pbs tonight at 10:00,:00 central. two news updates. late this evening, president trump signed into law two bills backing pro-democracy protesters in ng kong, the move allows the u.s. to sanction human rights abuses and it bans the ext of tear gas and other crowd control munitions to hong kong. it comes despite china's objections and amid ongoing

talks to end trade tensions wit. beij and in an opinion piece for "the washington post," former u.s. navy secretary richard spencer eaks out three days after being fired following a dispute th president trump over how to handle a navy seal accused of war crimes.it spencer wr in part, quote, the president has very little understanding of what it means to b in the military, to fight etcally or to governed by a uniform set of rules andce prac end quote. and that's the "newshour" for night. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again hererr to evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you can do the things yh like to do wwireless plan designed for you. with talk, text and data. consumer cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv

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